Recent Links » August 2005
- Lawsuit alleges that UC schools discriminate against Christian students by failing to accept credit from Christian-themed courses.
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- Orson Scott Card buys two of Eric James Stone’s short stories for a new online magazine
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- “Something Sacred” by Lisa at the Conversation blog — intense, personal and spiritual writing
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- A Motley Vision becomes a group blog with additions of Kent Larsen, Eric Russell and Patricia Gunter Karamesines
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- …but being full of shiitake is healthier.
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- Uh-oh, here come the coffee apologists…
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- Ways the church has arranged for you to donate to Hurricane Relief
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- Today in the life of Joseph Smith (ht: cougarboard.com)
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- LDS singer Brandon Flowers (The Killers) ties the knot.
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- Comprehensive poll about religion and politics. (Hint: fodder for bloggernacle posts.)
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- Ryan Bell exposes the “living Constitution” fraud at Slate. Wizards beware!
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- The sacred grove in the New York Times.
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- The sinister truth has been revealed at last!
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- Who you calling a cultist?
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- Heather Oman, aka She Who Must Be Obeyed, discovers the essence of blogging
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- Problems with America’s government-paid clergy
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- Among other things, Lavell Edwards helps to establish a Harlem high-school football team
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- A Christian coup?
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- Timing is everything.
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- Down with love!
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- Balkin on the idea of the “living constitution.”
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- Ryan Bell, not tooting his own horn
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- St. Thomas More
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- Today’s Dilbert’s “discount religion” cartoon
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- “Flooding the Earth With the Book of Mormon.” He is now keeping a numbered online journal of his Book of Mormon sharing experiences. He is at 400+ right now.
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- The national weather service sounds like the Old Testament today.
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- Eugene Volokh on whether SSM will lead to polygamy and punishments for “homophobes”
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- Bias! in the Bloggernacle! Well, not really, in the Academy.
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- Genes and homosexuality
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- Eugene Volokh on sexual ‘conversion’
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- Nate’s cruelty revealed!
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- You’re on the right track, Russia.
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- Rape trial begins for former BYU football players
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- Book of Mormon blogging: how to get a testimony
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- Set up your dream date with Steve Evans …
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- see the live humans exhibit at the London Zoo
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- fmhLisa shows us the way to opt out of junk mail
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- Klingon Fairy Tales
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- Sexist gender essentialism from Oman.
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- Over or Under? Orson Scott Card explains toilet paper (scroll down)
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- Fast Company profiles a Management superguru/LDS mission president. (Hat tip: Orson’s T.)
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- A new FMH blogger springs, fully formed, from the head of Lisa.
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- You figure someone stole these from him or what?
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- Two of the three most popular items at FARMS are not in English. (right sidebar, scroll down)
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- South Korean women refuse to wear bikinis (hat tip to Hijabi Madness blog)
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- Three stars out of four, thumbs up, for the movie “Mobsters and Mormons”
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- Jordan Fowles writes: Don’t touch!
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- Utah law enforcement isn’t exactly getting “rave” reviews lately. (Hat tip: Instapundit).
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- Inspired by Kaimi and the local store, Rusty turns to cheeseblogging
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- Google Talk is now available for download.
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- The shocking truth is revealed! Aaron Brown is Prudence McPrude.
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- . . . or is he?
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- J. Max Wilson leaves the bloggernacle. How many scenes must be objectionable before we leave the theater?
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- BOMBlogging Week 2 reading links
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- How do we reconcile our notions of gender with the use of a male Examplar whose example is for all church members?
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- D.’s one-paragraph review of Titanic.
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- A new frontier for intelligent design?
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- Writers of the future, unite! (You have nothing to lose but your income.)
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- A review of the renovated Hawaii temple complex.
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- WordPress invites … haven’t gotten mine yet …
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- The gangs of Zion
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- Happy Birthday! Now let’s all sing along. Zippedy-ay and hidey-hoh, there’s something we can do . . .
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- Life is complicated.
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- How t.v. consistently disses Utah
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- My name is Kaimi, and I’m a bloggernackaholic.
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- Awww . . . .
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- No sex, please — we’re filmmakers.
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- Feedsters Top 500 Blogs (no ‘Nacle blogs on the list, it appears)
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- A guy who carries around an Igbo and English Book of Mormon in his car. He then finds someone to give it to.
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- Thy neighbor’s wi-fi
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- A Soft Answer is back (yay!)
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- Scandal!
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- Against Moroni.
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- BCC announces a collaboration with Dialogue
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- Stay-at-home moms are like slaves? Yikes! (Hat tip: Mommy Wars)
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- Blogging the Book of Mormon challenge … feel free to join in
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- Tierney: “If you believe that life begins at conception, then protecting women’s rights means protecting the rights of females in the womb, too.” (NYT, free reg. req’d).
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- Kim Clark (and, briefly, T & S) discussed on CNN.com.
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- Killed by playing computer games for too long. Not kidding, alas.
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- An interview with LDS fantasy author Brandon Sanderson.
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- MacBeth strikes. Or perhaps it’s Adam’s repeated curses.
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- Kim Siever isn’t.
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- Salman Rushdie calls for a reformation of Islam
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- Zoo blogging
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- Before BCC, before T&S, there was …
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- D. Bell to Adam haters: Kiss off.
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- What is really wrong with the Supreme Court: Sloppiness
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- Losing the World which Hiroshima Made Possible
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On the “fringe benefits” of total war, and why we should be grateful we’ve lost them. #
- Woo hoo! Survey results are in!
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On the bright side, I got one write-in vote as most annoying. On the down side, my endorsement of Steve Evans as most annoying appears to have had little effect. #
- Kristen J and the evil LDS sales-dude.
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- Popular perceptions of philosophy. Pretty funny.
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- Another discussion of pharmacists and birth control.
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- Dismantling and selling, a la carte, a first-edition Book of Mormon.
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- Marriage: still worth fighting for
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- What is the place of romantic love in LDS belief?
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- Disclosure legislation and the church.
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- Send your kids to Youth Genealogy Camp
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- Twins and whether life begins at conception
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- The structure of Mormon cities.
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- How to go on living after loss.
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- It’s a bloggernacle survey. Vote early and vote often!
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- Pro-choice capitalists: making sex selection easy
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- Cheerleaders foil a crime by cheering. Really!
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- The newest weight-loss technique: The brainwashing diet.
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- Law School in Five Minutes
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- “The Virtues of Virtue” (NYT, free reg. req’d).
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- Now that’s what I call gardening!
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- In the breech, heroism is the norm
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So give us Hominibus sapientibus a little credit #
- A great post title: “Loving even our blogging enemies”
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- Lots of discussion of Young Women’s versus Scouts.
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- “In exchange, defendant handed to said un-apprehended individual an icy.” (NY Times, reg req’d)
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- The nine-week engagement, redux.
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- Non embryo-killing stem cells
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- Insidious subjugation of the poor
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- Meanwhile, back at the ranch . . .
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- John Roberts, gay-rights activist. (NYT, free reg. req’d).
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- Food crisis and child starvation in Niger. (NYT, free reg. req’d).
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- Read the Book of Mormon by the end of the year.
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- Burqas as a religious freedom issue?
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- Scouting vs Young Women’s.
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- Another review of Rough Stone Rolling.
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- Don’t miss Rusty’s Bloggernacle Trading Cards!!
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Fair warning: you will get Diet Coke up your nose if you drink while ogling #
- At my old summer camp, another scout is killed by lightning
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- Steve Young becomes the first BYU alum, and only the second Mormon (Merlin Olsen), in the pro football Hall of Fame.
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- Salt Lake City’s post-Olympics bust
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- An early review of Rough Stone Rolling
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- Bush advocates teaching intelligent design in schools
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- Volokh and the New York Times on cussing
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- Court rules on the legal distinction between prostitution and pornography.
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- A bloggernacle get-together in the Heimat
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- Robert Millet in Christianity Today on Martha Back
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- Eric Stone in Analog
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- Rusty uncovers Bloggernacle trading cards.
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- DNA suggests that 70 people originally settled America.
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- Tourism in space closer to reality
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Let’s hope it will be a footstool to better things #
- Family Scholars tussle over mothers. Sweet. (HT: eve-tushnet.blogspot.com)
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- Value[s] investors
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- An advocate for large families, by gentile standards
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Yes, I’m aware of the irony of saying ‘gentile’ here. #
- You know I’m training to be a cage fighter
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- GPS tracking of pederasts. Faster, please.
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- Cussing in Mormon films
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- Mormon cinema in the NYT
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Hat tip: Taylor #
- Agency and insanity.
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